David Corfield
David Neil Corfield is a British philosopher specializing in philosophy of mathematics and philosophy of psychology. He is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Kent.
David Corfield | |
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| Born | David Neil Corfield |
| Education | University of Cambridge (BA) King's College London (MSc; PhD, 1996) |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Institutions | University of Kent |
| Thesis | Research Programmes, Logic, and Analogy: Three Aspects of Mathematics and Its Development (1996) |
| Doctoral advisor | Donald A. Gillies |
Main interests | Philosophy of mathematics Philosophy of psychology |
Notable ideas | Philosophy of real mathematics (as opposed to metamathematics) Adoption of mathematical-categorification procedures for philosophy Homotopy type theory as an inherently structuralist foundational language for mathematics Modal homotopy type theory The reality of the interconnection between the psychological and biological aspects of the person |
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